Oral QuestionTreasury

If he will make it his policy to raise the VAT threshold for businesses.

Tabled: 13 December 2023Answered: 19 December 2023

Asked by

Sir Desmond Swayne

ConservativeNew Forest West

Answering Minister

the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Answer from Hansard

The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Yvette Cooper)

Knife crime takes far too many young lives in this country, so the Government have set a mission—not just for the Government but for policing and local communities right across the country—to halve knife crime over the next decade. As part of that, we have already implemented the ban on zombie knives and zombie-style machetes, and we will now act quickly to ban ninja swords following the campaigning by Pooja Kanda after the death of her son.